I need to turn off Spotlight on the dual G5 I use at work. Every so often the G5 experiences the Spotlight boot-up hang and I have to go into safe mode and delete the corrupted Spotlight index. If I turned off Spotlight completely, I can't do any occasional searches that I might need.
Neither turning off Spotlight or leaving it on is very convenient for me. Is there any other way of doing file searches without Spotlight enabled? If I can't do searching without Spotlight on, then I'll maybe try ditching Tiger and experiement with forcing a Panther install onto the dual G5 (I've been told Panther doesn't install on dual G5s).
There were some little app's for turning Spotlight and Dashboard off,
But I can't find a link to them at the moment.
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Spotlight - After installing or upgrading to OS X 10.4, Spotlight might be automatically enabled on
your media drives. For the best system performance, Avid recommends disabling Spotlight for your media drives.
To disable Spotlight:
a. Go to System Preferences > Spotlight.
b. Click Privacy.
c. Select a disk on the desktop, click the + button to add to the list. (or drag & drop from the desktop)
d. Continue to do this for every disk. You will need to add new disks as you add them****
Seems to me you should try to fix this problem. Does the G5 have Applecare?
Finding things without spotlight is pretty much limited to matching file names or very expensive find/grep combinations. Which is why Spotlight is such a quantum leap.
In a bind you can find a file with "foobar" in its name using the Terminal (begin by opening a Terminal application) and typing "locate foobar".
There are more things one can do on the shell but I'm not going to go into it unless you try to fix your machine first. Permissions? Corrupt spotlight database?
Spotlight - After installing or upgrading to OS X 10.4, Spotlight might be automatically enabled on
your media drives. For the best system performance, Avid recommends disabling Spotlight for your media drives.
To disable Spotlight:
a. Go to System Preferences > Spotlight.
b. Click Privacy.
c. Select a disk on the desktop, click the + button to add to the list. (or drag & drop from the desktop)
d. Continue to do this for every disk. You will need to add new disks as you add them****
Don't have any media drives attached to the G5, but we do access our fileserver network drive for our jobs. Does Spotlight index mounted network drives?
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Originally Posted by Heart
Spotless 1.0.3
Can turn off Spotlight and claim the MB it uses for its index of information.
You can use it to force a re-index or use the index but turn OFF future re-indexing.
I like it , easy to use.
Wish it was free.
Single User License: $7.95 (USD)
4 out of 5
I can turn off Spotlight manually, that's not the problem. I can't do searches, or at least I can't figure out a way, without it turned on. Only thing I can think of is downgrading to Panther to use the old Finder.
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Originally Posted by Script Kiddie
Seems to me you should try to fix this problem. Does the G5 have Applecare?
Finding things without spotlight is pretty much limited to matching file names or very expensive find/grep combinations. Which is why Spotlight is such a quantum leap.
In a bind you can find a file with "foobar" in its name using the Terminal (begin by opening a Terminal application) and typing "locate foobar".
There are more things one can do on the shell but I'm not going to go into it unless you try to fix your machine first. Permissions? Corrupt spotlight database?
No, I agree, we want to fix the problem. More than likely from what I read, we probably need to replace one of the two sticks of 1gb ram. But that would involve sending the G5 back to Apple and waiting for weeks for them to determine the problem, while I twittle my thumbs without a production machine.
We've re-installed Tiger several times already, before we figured out how to correct the Spotlight boot hang more easily by going into Safe Mode. Then we'll be good for a week or two and then it happens again. The dual PowerMac is only a few months old, so needless to say, this sucks.
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QuickSilver is an application launcher but you it could be setup to search for files.
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